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United, Aloha to Expand Alliance

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Susan Carey

Updated May 3, 2007 9:23 p.m. ET

CHICAGO -- United Airlines and its long-time Hawaiian airline partner Aloha Airlines said they plan to expand their existing marketing alliance in a deal that will give United a small minority interest in the Honolulu-based carrier and a seat on its nine-member board.

United, owned by UAL Corp., has since the 1990s had a arrangement in which its passengers are transferred onto Aloha's interisland Hawaiian flights. Now, after a couple of months of negotiations, United and Aloha will enhance their code-sharing relationship --...